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Just wondering… I once read a book on chaos, which started with Lorenz’s butterfly (thoroughly explained). I just can’t remember if the butterfly of Lorenz draws upon the classical chaos of classical systems. Classical systems are closed systems and the earth is (I think) not a closed system. The real paradigm shift has been from ‘classical’ to ‘quantum mechanics’. With the latter you’d still get chaos, but it would be a characteristic of complexity, not ‘sensitive to initial conditions’ and so on. At least, that’s what I think…